ABSTRACT
Post-war Europe has faced the challenge of transforming from an emigration to an immigration region. This process has occurred at different times in different parts of the continent. Southern European countries have followed the northern ones, whereas the issue of when and how the transformation will be noticeable in Central and Eastern Europe remains an open question. This transformation has had a powerful impact on every domain of the social, political and economic realm of states receiving migrants and of Europe as a whole–on its demography, labour market, welfare, politics as well as social and ethnic relations.
